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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess I'm not really posting this 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I just feel like “social” media was too gamified to ever work. Having to maintain a pretense is the opposite of being social.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This was a very interesting read. Hard to predict how social media platforms will look in 10 years

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the reason group chats are gaining is because we are so numbed by all the public platforms. Between doom scrolling and ads noone pays any attention to personal posts anymore.

For me personally I would even go one step further and say that I'm really annoyed by people force-feeding me their peronal life/experiences.

Now they start (ab)using group chats for it:

A group created for organizing rock climbing activities: All of a sudden filled with photos of this summers vacation. OK, we are friends and know each other, but still...

Another one was for a specific training of a mountaineering club, people who just met for this one occasion: Half a year later someone starts posting photos of their latest trip. And then the next, ...

Maybe in my case it's the generation that started sm (lol) with attention seeking extrovert posts that do not get any attention on fb/x anymore, so they go to group chats.

What might still be true for younger people is that with all the noise on the internet a group chat may be a place that gives you a manageable chunk of content with a private touch that makes perosonal involvement worthwile/doable again.

And now let's watch it get abused&destroyed by corporations.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't care, never will. I have abandonned all interest in social media, and centralized platforms that rely on targetted advertisements and that just keep selling your identity to corporates, through lemmy I have learned that MORE control (over your life) an some times bring MORE peace of mind. Right now i have quit fb and instagram, and for it im a happier and more cerene person

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still miss Google+, my friends and my sharing is based on the subject not my relation to my friends.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in a few sea kayaking Facebook groups which are pretty active, and being based around a common interest, there is some genuinely good conversation happening.

It's a shitshow outside our little walled garden though, I just post about my trips and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just finished a riveting couple of weeks watching my neighborhood chat devolve into accusations/almost outright war about a stranger going around moving trash bins/furniture to... Prank? Apparently? But everyone was picking sides and I was waiting in anticipation for the obvious reveal...

IT WAS THE WIND

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of my groups have moved to Signal from FB, feels a lot less dirty using a community platform vs a filthy advertising company. Now I just need to get a phone not developed by an ad company i.e. Alphabet Inc.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

At this point facebook is like a needy ex that won't let go. I haven't posted or logged on there in a long time but it keeps on sending email and push notifications

I know, I can turn that sort of thing off, but omg will it STFU already

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